The atpB RNA motif is a conserved RNA structure that was discovered by bioinformatics.[1] atpB motifs are found in Corynebacteriaceae.

atpB
Consensus secondary structure and sequence conservation of atpB RNA
Identifiers
SymbolatpB
RfamRF02916
Other data
RNA typeCis-reg
SOSO:0005836
PDB structuresPDBe

These RNAs are consistently located upstream of atpB genes, which encode a protein that is part of ATP synthase. Therefore, it is possible that atpB RNAs regulate these genes as cis-regulatory elements.

References

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  1. ^ Weinberg Z, Lünse CE, Corbino KA, Ames TD, Nelson JW, Roth A, Perkins KR, Sherlock ME, Breaker RR (October 2017). "Detection of 224 candidate structured RNAs by comparative analysis of specific subsets of intergenic regions". Nucleic Acids Research. 45 (18): 10811–10823. doi:10.1093/nar/gkx699. PMC 5737381. PMID 28977401.